Senator: Bush will order iraq attack 'fairly soon', attack is 'immenent'

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[StopDemocratsDotCom]

Senator InHofe (R-OK): Bush will order iraq attack 'fairly soon', attack is 'immenent'.

[terilyn]

Hey, don't be sorry! Any report, short or not, is worth posting here.

Thanks for your efforts!

[leadhead]

I am flying to the East Coast on aug 31, sept 5, sept9 and sept 12,,should I be nervous? Flying in and out of Baltimore.

Naah! KKT can't be Governor until January.

[Thumper1960]

"I have signed legislation outlawing Iraq. Bombing begins in five minutes."

Is it coming? Today? Tomorrow? Sunday? August 29th? September 5th? 2001? 2002?

Chill out Saddam...that was just a truck backfiring.

Hey, Saddam! How's your sleep? Restless?

LOLOL

[kinghorse]

Imminent, effeminate,decafeinate, defecate, I don't care as long as the action is taken before Hussein has enough in place in the USA to cause serious damage. Saudi Arabia should pretty much assume their society is going to be a little more transparent or more than a few of their princes are going to be ventilated. So the royals, pffft I spit on the notion of something royal coming out of sandy ass land, anyway these carpet riding sumbitches need a little reminder of how your world gets rocked when a giant is rudely rousted from his sleep. Problem is, these people are totally nuts and would threaten with blackmail or actually stage a WMD attack in the USA. One or two cities is one thing. 10 or 12 would be hard to recover from. Not to mention the burning stench of 800 million souls from Tripoli to Cairo to Damascus to Riyahd to Baghdad to Tehran to Jalalabad to Islamabad to Katmandu. That's pretty much assuring a miserable life for whoever survives. Except, of course, Charlton Heston. He would have already departed for monkeyland. Come to think of it, wasn't that sandy next to Johnny Taliban in the picture they used to show like ever 2 minutes one of those monkey people? Did they crate his ass off to Roswell New Mexico? What are your thoughts?

[thedilg]

How about an attack on 11 September.

Godspeed, The Dilg

[TADSLOS]

What are the odds that it is already under way?

The detailed planning and initial preparations are already underway, no doubt, based on recent press reports. Contingency plans (OPLANS) have been on the shelf for years. That's just how the Pentagon does business. When and how it will happen is anybody's guess and as it should be. I want us all to be suprised when we turn on FoxNews some morning to witness the intial reports of attack. It will mean that OPSEC has, up to that point, been successful.

[TheLurkerX]

You don't want to wait and see if something else happens on the 11th. You also want to maximize your advantage while minimizing damage on our own turf in case of terrorist retaliation. If you do it in the afternoon on Sat., you get all night to run sorties with a sliver of moon. It's not as good as waiting until the new moon on the 7th, but you have the benefit of doing it during the labor day holiday weekend, when major businesses and offices in the major metro areas will be minimally populated. By doing it Saturday afternoon, you also give people who are travelling enough time to get to where they are going. It's seems like the best time all around to me, but they may wait until the new moon and the following weekend.

[kinghorse]

They are going to run through Iraq like viscous brown liquid through a goose.
It'll be like one of those future battle scenes from the first Terminator.
Or it'll be really hot and with sand getting in your hoochie coo.
Not sure which at this point.

[leadhead]

What are the odds that it is already under way?

8 to 5 against.

This will be a campaign like no other we've seen in the last 60 years except for some semblences to MacArthur's end around in Korea.

There are hints of some classic chess trapping moves and offense/defense reversals with a sprinkling of Troy and Alexander's better efforts.

The woe-is-me chorus will be dumbfounded. The body bag manufacturers will be beating their breasts for lack of business.

To quote the poet:"I see a bad moon rising" (well, sort of a poet :))

[PhilDragoo]

Section 2. Authorization for Use of United States Armed Forces

(a) In General -- That the president is authorized to use all necessary and appropriate force against those nations, organizations, or persons he determines planned, authorized, committed, or aided the terrorist attacks that occurred on September 11, 2001, or harbored such organizations or persons, in order to prevent any future acts of international terrorism against the United States by such nations, organizations or persons.

You write:

The way I read it congress authorized the president to go after the people who were behind the 9-11 attack. If it can't be shown that Hussein was behind 9-11, then it seems clear to me that Bush has to back to congress for authorization to attack Iraq, this time on the grounds that Hussein is a threat to Israel or the U.S.

Certainly the above paragraph in its entirety provides extensive powers, and does not limit authorization to attack the planners, but also those who harbor them.

At a certain time in the not too distant future I envision an announcement that the president will address the nation, and that we'll see and hear certain links we now assume, but have not in the public domain.

The recent conference of Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rice likely ironed out the choreography, so that the law and constitution shall be satisfied.

It is a period of suspended time, when congress is out of town, and cicadas hum, and Saddam stands at a map in a bunker, while Bush publicly reiterates his patience.

It seems like yesterday when the planes crashed the towers. . . .

. . . .and our president gave his finest speech before the joint session of Congress and the nation. . . .

[Vermont Lt]

The reserves are not being called up in large numbers. Here are the latest. For the second week in a row, the actual net numbers are lower than the previous period.

From the Defense Department:

NATIONAL GUARD AND RESERVE MOBILIZED AS OF AUGUST 21
This week the Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps each announce decreases of reservists on active duty in support of the partial mobilization. The net collective result is 1,562 fewer reservists than last week.

At any given time, services may mobilize some units and individuals while demobilizing others, making it possible for these figures to either increase or decrease. Total number currently on active duty in support of the partial mobilization for the Army National Guard and Army Reserve is 36,895; Naval Reserve, 6,525; Air National Guard and Air Force Reserve, 28,214; Marine Corps Reserve, 3,788; and the Coast Guard Reserve 1,096. This brings the total Reserve and National Guard on active duty to 76,518 including both units and individual augmentees.

[Vermont Lt]

The reserves are not being called up in large numbers. Here are the latest. For the second week in a row, the actual net numbers are lower than the previous period.

From the Defense Department:

NATIONAL GUARD AND RESERVE MOBILIZED AS OF AUGUST 21
This week the Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps each announce decreases of reservists on active duty in support of the partial mobilization. The net collective result is 1,562 fewer reservists than last week.

At any given time, services may mobilize some units and individuals while demobilizing others, making it possible for these figures to either increase or decrease. Total number currently on active duty in support of the partial mobilization for the Army National Guard and Army Reserve is 36,895; Naval Reserve, 6,525; Air National Guard and Air Force Reserve, 28,214; Marine Corps Reserve, 3,788; and the Coast Guard Reserve 1,096. This brings the total Reserve and National Guard on active duty to 76,518 including both units and individual augmentees.

[TADSLOS]

They are going to run through Iraq like viscous brown liquid through a goose.

LOL!! Yep. People had better be paying attention, or they'll just get the recap and replays along with the State Department newsbrief on the new head of state for Iraq. I'm really looking forward to catching a glimpse of any breakthrough technologies being introduced that have been under wraps, similar to the F-117 and B2 during the outset of Just Cause and Desert Storm.

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

Is it all a scare campaing to destabilize Iraq? ala Reagan's "Star Wars" campaign?

Well,....why not?

[StriperSniper]

I have it on VERY solid authority that we have been beaming mind-control waves into Iraq for quite some time now, which by now should undoubtedly be having their effect.

Saddam ran out of tin-foil? ;-)

[kinghorse]

I shouldn't make fun of something as deadly serious as fighting. My bad. This war looks to be more covert than overt. The covert ops personnel know what they signed up to do.

[PatriotNow]

This isn't new. Be patient. It's coming.

[willyboyishere]

I said it months ago, and I'll say it again: we will NEVER
attack Iraq unilaterally.It would spell the end of Israel, for one thing. I can see Israel attacking pre-emptively however, and bracing for the consequences. In that scenario, there might be repercussions in the US exactly as if we had been the ones to attack first.